Kalau muslim di India oppressed [ditindas] lalu apa agama presiden India sekarang?
Hendaklah semua yang bukan Muslim di Indonesia sadar bahwa tidak bakalan orang minoritas beragama non-Muslim menjadi presiden seperti India. ----- Original Message ----- From: Asmara Hash To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; proletar@yahoogroups.com ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 12:05 PM Subject: [zamanku] Indian Muslims Indian Muslims - An Oppressed Minority By Abdul Haq India has a unique experience of Muslim minority. A dominant minority in the medieval period became a dominated minority, all of a sudden with the advent of British rule in India. This sudden change resulted into complex problems. Partition of sub-continent in Aug 47 converted the Muslim community of India into ¡Pakistani Muslims¢ and ¡Indian Muslims¢. This was a great shock as far as Indian Muslims are concerned. The rulers of Yesterday, now had to live under the ¡Hindu rule¢. Fifty years having passed, the Muslims who opted to stay in India are still getting a raw deal in every sphere of life. They are still drowned in the scourge of poverty and backwardness. They continue fighting the ever-hunting spectra of communal riots and threats to their religious and cultural identity. The sense of insecurity experienced by the Indian Muslims in the post partition period has been compounded in recent years by the state repression and terrorism under the ¡draconian¢, Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevension) Act (TADA). Under this act 7,9332 people, mostly Muslims were detained and tortured during 1990-95 across the country. Though the Act has been repealed, yet about 5000 persons, mostly Muslims, are still in jails. Hinduism and Islam Dr Balraj Madhok, former Professor of history at Delhi University while explaining the term ¡Hindu¢ said, "Everyone living in India is a Hindu. Hinduism is no religion, it is the name of a civilization (Tahzib), a way of life." He further said that, "Whereas his (Madhok¢s) nationality is Hindu, his (Madhok¢s) religion is Vedic Dharmi". While giving an interview to ¡New York Times¢ correspondent at Delhi in 1966, he said, "In this country we have never insisted on religious confirmity and we are not going to start now. However, one thing we do insist on, is that Muslims become Indians. They can worship as they like, but they must adopt this country¢s customs as their customs." What all it means for Muslims is that Hinduism is not so much a religion as it is a way of life. It prescribes not only how a man must pray, but also how he must eat, dress, converse, work and die. On the other hand Islam is much more than this. While asking a Muslim to give up all but his mosque and adopt the Indian way of life, is virtually demanding that he should give up Islam and become Hindu. Nobody can dispute that the Muslims have individually and collectively the duty and responsibility to mould their personal and social lives in accordance with the dictates of Islam, which is a perfect way of life, better than any religion in the world. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apakah Anda Yahoo!? Kunjungi halaman depan Yahoo! Indonesia yang baru! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.14.5/533 - Release Date: 11/13/2006 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
